Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether end-use restrictions apply to controlled goods exported to Israel.

Our export licensing system is based on a rigorous assessment of every licence application on a case-by-case basis against strict assessment criteria, the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria (the SELC), prior to the export taking place.

The SELC provide a thorough risk assessment framework for export licence applications and require us to think hard about the impact of providing equipment and its capabilities. We will not license the export of equipment where to do so would be inconsistent with the SELC, including where there is an unacceptable risk of the equipment being diverted to an undesirable end-use or end-user. These are not decisions we take lightly.